Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of it has been said before, over and over again. It is being said once more now. You could never sell a Harvard team short, they say. And they remind you of the crazily effective Harvard defenses that once prompted a confused Pennsylvania quarterback to call across the line of scrimmage that if you follows will only keep still for a minute, I'll be able to call a play." Harlow was a great November coach, they say. And they single out a November Saturday in 1937 when Yale arrived in Cambridge boasting Clint Frank and an undefeated season...
...watching the screen," complained one bartender, "people forget what is the prime purpose of a bar, which is to drink." He had three solutions for that: 1) "An extra employee to rove through the crowd and remind people that their drink is getting low"; 2) "Fill the first row with fast Scotch drinkers, and push them slow beers to the back. However, that is too ideal to be practical, because you would be offending a beer drinker who could easily develop into something better"; 3) "Raise prices during television hours; most places...
...Francisco last week, five bearded, black-robed men sat talking around a dining-room table. It was a sobor (ecclesiastical meeting) of the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America. But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp-not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg...
...Birmingham listened to his Archbishop's denunciation last week with a faint smile. "There is no question of my resigning my bishopric," he told a reporter afterwards. Dr. Fisher plans to take no further action. But his rebuke of the free-thinking Bishop served a wider purpose: to remind all easy-going Anglicans that 1) what a man believes is as important as what he does, and 2) the Apostles' Creed means what it says, even if some of those who recite it don't think...
...quote Mr. Grady Edney in your Sept. 22 issue: "Jazz 'purists' remind me of a little group of prim spinsters careening along in Henry's first Ford, warmly assuring themselves that the Lincoln Zephyr gliding by is only a commercial corruption of the Original Thing...